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The Quilt Show Committee has been hard at work to finalize details for another successful show in May.

Here is your checklist…

* Have you registered your quilt(s)?
northernstarquilters.com/quilt-show/quilt-registration

* Have you signed up for your volunteer slot?
northernstarquilters.com/quilt-show/volunteer

* Have you bought your charity raffle quilt tickets?
nsqg.formstack.com/forms/nsqg_charity_raffle

* Have you told family and friends to buy advance discount tickets?  Start spreading the word!
nsqg.formstack.com/forms/showtickets

* Have you made a Challenge Quilt?  We can’t wait to see the exhibit!

* Have you heard about our new addition this year?  A guild raffle table!  Committee members are hard at work gathering baskets, including the BERNINA Sewing Machine, for a raffle.  Deadline for raffle basket donation is  the April meeting, we will be at the March meeting to explain and answer questions.

Lisa Alfozetti, nsqgworldofquilts@gmail.com

I am pleased to announce that our charity recipient for the 2024 raffle quilt is the North Salem Volunteer Ambulance Corps. They have been our meeting place for Comfort Quilts for the past several years and have always been willing and able to help our Guild. Thank you Karen Carlson for being the Guild liaison for this wonderful organization.

I am in search of a quilt coordinator for our 2025 Raffle Quilt. The coordinator shall be responsible for selecting the design, distributing the piecing kits and supervising the assembly . Having a friend as co-coordinator will make your responsibilities easier. Please let me know if you have any questions.

Dee Plouffe’,  charitable@northernstarquilters.com

Hi everyone,

We look forward to greeting you at the first in-person guild meeting of the year on March 15, 2023. The Ugly Fabric Auction is sure to be a lot of fun!

If you are a new member, please introduce yourself at the sign-in table. A Welcome folder, name badge and gifts await you! We would like to make sure you feel comfortable and would be happy to introduce you to a few members with whom you can sit during the meeting.

DIRECTORY CORRECTIONS AND UPDATES
*Caryl Castellion’s cell phone number has been incorrect: it should be 203 231-3594.
*Nancy Pruyne has a new email address: npruyne00@gmail.com
*Nancy Mirman has a new email address: nmirman@optonline.net

Happy quilting!
Joanne Visovsky and Carol Sterk, membership@northernstarquilters.com

• Registration Information
• Categories and Display Requirements
• Quilt Drop-off and Pickup Times and Requirements

Do you have extra storage space that you can donate to the cause?
Do you know anyone or any organization or business who might have storage space to donate to store our equipment?

• We are looking for donations of new merchandise, as well as gift certificates to local businesses, for our ‘At the Show’ raffle.  Help make our new show event fun and exciting!
  Contact nsqgworldofquilts@gmail.com with any questions.
  

• Admission tickets will be available for online purchase at a discounted rate starting in February.  Share this information with friends and family and encourage them to purchase their tickets in advance – NSQG.formstack.com/forms/showtickets
  

• Quilt show volunteer signups will be starting soon, stay tuned.

• Sell raffle tickets for “Blue Lightning”, the stunning bed-sized quilt made by guild members, with proceeds to benefit this year’s charity Sparrow’s Nest.

• Register your quilt as soon as possible.

• Make sure you are FOLLOWING the guild on social media,  SHARE future posts about the show, POST an event to your online community bulletin boards and FORWARD quilt show information to friends and family.
  Word of mouth advertising works, and it is FREE!

Lisa Alfozetti, nsqgworldofquilts@gmail.com

Hi everyone!

Now that the holidays are behind us, I hope you’re finding more time to quilt!

It was nice to see so many new and familiar faces on Zoom last week!  Please welcome new members who have joined the guild over the past month. They are Lefa Alksne of Croton-on-Hudson,  Barbara Danzi of New York City and Fumiko Kano of Yorktown Heights.

The updated online version of the 2022-2023 Membership Directory will be emailed to you within the next few weeks.  Please let us know as soon as possible if any of your information needs to be updated.  This is also a great time to email us your photo for the latest edition of the directory!

See you later this month for the second Zoom meeting of the year,

Joanne Visovsky and Carol Sterk, membership@northernstarquilters.com

When you are not busy working on your quilt to enter in the show, or selling charity raffle tickets for the beautiful quilt to benefit Sparrow’s Nest, we have one more fun project that needs your help!

There will be a basket raffle table at the show, with an opportunity to win additional prizes.

Donations of complete baskets is the goal, but we will accept donations of new individual items if they can be worked into a basket with other items.  Perhaps you received something for the holidays that you won’t be using or already have a duplicate?  Are you friendly with a local business that would donate an item or a gift certificate or even an entire basket?

Get your SIG group together and show us your creativity with a group basket!  Partner up with some of your guild friends and put together something that everyone would want to win!  It does not have to be quilting related – a basket could have a theme such as gardening..cooking..spa day…etc.

This basket raffle will feature new items only, and complete baskets should have a minimum value of $100.

Thank you to Shelley Lounsbury and Narcie Medina who have stepped up to coordinate this.  Contact Shelley @ shlounz@gmail.com with any questions, or information about items you may want to donate.

It’s easy to confuse our own quilting books with those we’ve borrowed from the Guild’s Library, especially as time goes by.  Also some books may have been returned directly to the cart before the white sign-out card can be pulled and put back in the book.  A reminder email will be going out to borrowers with books believed to be due or past due.  Please check your home library for forgotten guild library books.  Your librarian (me) will be happy to be inundated with your returns at our March guild meeting.

Thanks!
Deb Tashjian, librarian@northernstarquilters.com

• Guest Speaker – Meg Cox
• Invitational – to be announced soon!
• The Quilt Raffle is happening now – benefitting Sparrow’s Nest – holiday gatherings are a great opportunity to sell tickets for this stunning quilt!
• Quilt Registration begins in January – are you working on your entries?
• Additional Event Raffles will feature a BERNINA Sewing Machine and more!

Comfort Quilts to Maria Ferari NICU

Projected Comfort Quilts dates for the rest of 2022:

– Dec. 7
– Dec 21 (special holiday gathering,12-2pm, contact Patricia Loquet for details)

We meet at North Salem Volunteer Ambulance Corps, 14 Daniel Rd. North Salem, from 10 to 2pm.
Bring lunch or a snack if you’d like a food break at your seat.
(All recommended vaccinations required.)
Last minute cancellations do happen, so if in doubt or coming for the first time please check.
Contact Karen Carlson or Carol Auer for information.

CQ November Quilts

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Hi everyone,

We look forward to seeing you in-person this month before our winter zoom meetings begin. New name tags are available for new members as well as for anyone who would like a replacement for their old one. For those of you who weren’t at the November meeting, the new badges can be clipped onto a jacket or you can attach your own ribbon and hang it around your neck; no more pin holes to damage your clothing!  Please email  membership@northernstarquilters.com or place your name on the request list that will be on the Membership table at the December meeting.
Don’t forget that this will be your last chance to pick up your badge before the next in-person meeting in March.

If you are a new member and haven’t picked up your NSQG Welcome packet, please stop by the Membership table to pick up yours. We’d love to meet you!

The PDF version of the 2022-2023 Membership Directory has been emailed, check your Spam folders if not received.

As we approach the last NSQG meeting of 2022, we want to wish each and every one of you happy holidays and a new year filled with peace, hope and joy!

Joanne Visovsky and Carol Sterk, membership@northernstarquilters.com

Bring your own project – Have a UFO? –  Sit N Sew with Nancy.

Do you have a project on which you are stuck?  Or maybe you have a photograph that you want to make into a quilt, and you don’t know how to start.  From how to make a quilt lie flat, how to make mitered corners, putting on a binding the correct way – Nancy can help you.  Nancy has been a member of the Guild since 1985 and taught quilting at The Country Quilter for almost 20 years.

Each participant will complete a simple Japanese Rice Bag. Then the students will choose a more complicated bag to make in the second half of the class.

We will learn the steps to start a portrait from a photograph that you will bring with you. No sewing machine for this class!

This is a technique workshop where you learn a way to piece curves and all shapes into pictures. Our picture will be MOON RIVER out of Sharon Schamber’s book, Piec-lique.  This technique can be used in several different ways in quilting.

Learn to cut, sew and press free-form quarter circle units to compose an improv drunkard’s path quilt. We will be experimenting with multi cuts, squiggly cuts and “cogs”. A sewing machine with a knee or auto lift presser foot is required.

Arabic Lattice is a traditional pattern and is perfect for confident beginners as well as more advanced quilters.  The pattern makes large 11” blocks.  The finished size of the quilt is 53″X64″ including borders.  The block consists of a 4-patch around which the lattice triangles are sewn.  A template is used for the lattice pieces and a partial seam is used to sew the four lattice triangles to the 4-patch.   The template is large and very easy to use.  The template will be supplied by me.  You may not think you want to use a template but believe me these blocks go together very quickly.  And partial seams are very easy, especially with such large pieces.

Have you ever considered working with transparent fabrics?  Whatever your style is, adding transparent areas to your work can add magic, softness, and interest.
In this workshop we will learn different ways of creating transparent areas in your quilt.  They can be within the quilt, or at the edges.  We will create a sample piece that has an inner transparent area as well as transparent extensions.

A recent communication from Ukraine with photos (some of our quilts)!  

Quilts arrived in Ukraine

“We got blankets!  These are beautiful handmade blankets. The quilts have personal inscriptions from the women who sewed them.  Our workers and refugees were very touched and expressed their sincere thanks.  Ukraine & USA together to Victory!
Best wishes, Dmytro”

$310 was raised in support of guild activities, three winners got to chose their favorite quilt from our ‘As Requested’ summer quilt project.
Thanks to all who participated!

Margaret, quilt by Karen Carlson and Carol Auer

Dee, quilt by Chris Roche

Kate, quilt by Louise Baptiste

Projected Comfort Quilts dates for the rest of 2022:
– Nov. 9 and 30 (2nd and 5th Wednesdays)
– Dec. 7 and 21 (1st and 3rd Wednesdays)

We meet at North Salem Volunteer Ambulance Corps, 14 Daniel Rd. North Salem, from 10 to 2pm.
Bring lunch or a snack if you’d like a food break at your seat.
(All recommended vaccinations required.)
Last minute cancellations do happen, so if in doubt or coming for the first time please check.

Quilts R Us !

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Some CQ September Quilts

Comfort Quilts October Show n Tell and Quilt Raffle

Each summer we offer a different ‘challenge’ to Comfort Quilters.  It started as a way to use up scraps or excess fabrics or fabrics that were being overlooked.  This year’s theme was ‘As Requested’ –  each quilter selected a color and motif and received a packet of fabrics based on their request.

The finished quilts are displayed at the October meeting ; one quilt is raffled off for every $100 raised,  $100+ = 1 quilt, $200+ = 2 quilts, $300+ = 3 quilts.  Money raised supports our guild activities.
Tickets are $5 each so bring your $$$.  We’ve never hit $400, maybe this is the year!

For a stroll down CQ memory lane, here are past challenges:

2021 Plaid Tidings – plaid and white packs
2020 Salt and Pepper – packs of off-whites and off-blacks
2019 Fat Quarter Fun – pick 2 FQ packs
2018 Roll Your Own – pack of 2 Jelly Rolls
2017 Kit Parade – grab bag of CQ kits
2016 Gotta Love It! – pick your own focus fabric and receive coordinating fabrics plus a solid
2015 It’s A Boy! – pack of fabric for larger size masculine style quilts
2014 White Lightning – pack of fabric white backgrounds
2013 Black Magic – pack of fabric with black backgrounds
2012 No BACKsies – ready-made backs with coordinating fabric
2011 Ronald McDonald House Donation- queen size quilts /build-a-block finishing
2010 Use it and Lose it!  – pick from odd blocks and 30’s fabrics and set using Twist N Turn
2009 Medallion Center Quilts – frame out pillow squares and other fabric panels
2008 Layer Cake – pack of 10″ squares
2007 Ronald McDonald House Donation – 8” block quilts
2006 Jewel Box Mystery Quilt
2005 Christmas Fabrics
2004 Strip Tease – bundles of strips

Help make quilts for charities!  Check out our Comfort Quilts page.  All members are welcome.

Projected Comfort Quilts dates for the rest of 2022 :

• Oct. 12 and 26 (2nd and 4th Wednesdays)
• Nov. 9 and 30 (2nd and 5th Wednesdays)
• Dec. 7 and 21 (1st and 3rd Wednesdays)

Contact Carol Auer or Karen Carlson or comfortquilts@northernstarquilters.com to join in making Comfort Quilts or to make a charity quilt request or to donate fabric.

Greetings to all!

The good news is that we have added 22 new members to our guild since last year.  The following people have joined our ranks since the last newsletter:  Beth Larsen of Croton,  Christine Bunke of Fishkill, Joan Galanin of Yorktown Heights, Beverly Golisano of North Salem, Lynn Kaufteil of Rye, Betty Moulton of Brewster and Laura Demos of New Fairfield.  We’d like to welcome each of you to Northern Star!  This is a guild that is open to all styles of quilting. We encourage you to find your niche and get involved!

If you are one of those people who haven’t yet renewed your membership, please don’t forget that your registration must be received by October 5 to be included in the hard copy of the 2022-2023 Membership Directory and receive our monthly newsletters and emails.  Of course, you will still be listed in the online version of the directory if you miss the deadline and resubscribed to our emails. The goal of this change is to insure that members have up-to-date information earlier in the year so that they can better communicate with each other.  The directories will be available at the October meeting. Don’t forget to pick up your copy at the membership table when you sign in.

For those of you who aren’t fans of the old membership name badges, you have a treat in store! Going forward, new members and any other members who would like one will be issued  heavy duty plastic badges with clips, ribbons can be added if you prefer to wear around your neck.  Please let Joanne know if you would like one. She will have your new badge ready at the October meeting.

Joanne Visovsky and Carol Sterk, Membership